Homemade Egg Tofu with Minced Pork Recipe

I’m the type of person that if given the choice of skinny (skim) milk to full fat milk, I would always choose full fat.

If you gave me an option of full cream anything versus the skim/skinny option, I’ll always go the full.

Why? Why am I, someone who occasionally makes brief mention of my paleo diet (where dairy is not even on the list) do something like that?

Because, you only get to live once. If I’m going to commit carbocide or lactoside, I might as well go all the way, and not do it by halves 🙂

I can’t stand how people order full big meals, and then have a skinny latte or a diet coke (unless they like the taste) as the healthy option.

Seriously, what is the point?

So when the Boy and I last went to the shops for some grocery shopping and he came out of the dairy aisle with 3 different cartons of milk, 2 of them soy milk, I began to question his sanity.

Why on earth did he want soy milk for? Why was he buying “Western” soy milk and not “Asian” soya bean milk? What was he doing? Was he going to start drinking that with coffee? Where are we going to keep that? Our fridge isn’t big enough, or was it?

So many questions, that were unanswered.

That is until dinner was served.

He had made egg tofu. Fresh egg tofu from the aforementioned purchased soy milk. Do you even understand what went through my mind when he said, “Dinner is ready!”?

I never knew that one could attempt tofu making at home, and it had never occurred to me to use normal soy milk. I always envisioned little old ladies or men grinding away on soy beans to generate the milk. That vision is now completely dashed.

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Oh wow, you do have a clever boy on your hands, looks delicious! Lol, I guess we are juicing a lot more lately? My mum went through a phase where we used to make our own soy milk, that was good but very time consuming to clean the machine afterwards…Ames recently posted…Showcase of GC

I’m with you, full fat dairy all the way! There is soooo little difference in percentage of fat content anyway (particularly with milk) that it’s just not worth the taste compromise. The number of times I’ve watched girls in the morning ordering their skinny latte with a danish … uggg, don’t get me started!CheezyK recently posted…Travelday – Riomaggiore

I never thought of making tofu at home before!! Can’t wait to try your recipe! hehe I completely agree with your full fat thing! Nothing tastes as good as full fat dairy products. But sadly for me, my tummy goes hay-wire with milk. So soy milk’s my only option boo:(
ps. the dr blamed my asian genes!Vien @ We Dare Food recently posted…Nobu, Southbank

The point is to make the cafe/restaurant workers laugh. And oh, how I laughed at the girls who ordered skinny milkshakes with extra ice cream at the cafe I worked at… However, I’m guilty with coke zero. For some reason, full sugar coke gives me headaches?

All that aside… OMG TOFU! I would never have thought you could make this with store bought soy milk; I had the same mental picture of little old ladies and beans 🙂 This looks so good! Bravo A.

It’s never occurred to me you can make your own tofu. I know what I’m doing at the weekend! Have you tried making your own butter? So easy and never fails to delight me when all of a sudden after a bit of shaking there’s butter sitting in a jar that was previously cream! 🙂

I’ve never heard of egg tofu. Can you explain a little more about the steaming process? I could set the baking dish inside a pan of water and put it in the oven, like custard, but it sounded like you might be doing something different than that.[email protected] recently posted…Mango Salsa

OK. I do have a little Pyrex baking dish that can go on top of the steamer insert in a pot. All my recipes that call for steaming something that’s in a dish use the oven, so I never thought of doing it on the stove.[email protected] recently posted…Grilled Pineapple, Banana and Mango